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The men of the 2325th Group's 209th Detachment had been recruited from the country's poor, desperate, and criminal and brought to Silmido Island to be trained to become assassins. To South Korea's own authoritarian leaders in 1968, this meant they had to be hardened.<p>They were abused, neglected, and …

TEL AVIV — On the morning of June 1, 1967, the phone rang in a small apartment in Herzliya, an upmarket suburb a few miles north of Tel Aviv.<p>“Good morning, madam. This is Yuri speaking. Is your husband at home?” said a man’s voice in English with a heavy Russian accent, sounding tense.<p>“I wish he …

Watch out, Big Data.<p>Normally it would be considered rude to call a class “bullshit,” but here’s one time you can get away with it.<p>Two University of Washington professors are teaching a course to help students “think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and …